ELISE - European Location Interoperability Solutions for e-Government glossary

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Standards and Architectures for eGovernment Applications

Refers to testing solutions in a safe environment, with a focus on technical and institutional innovations to enable more efficient and effective delivery of public services through data sharing and reuse

ELISE Resources: Overview of the established sandboxes and description of their use

SANS

Escal Institute of Advanced Technologies

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal

Semantic asset

Means a collection of highly reusable metadata or reference data such as code lists, taxonomies, dictionaries or vocabularies which are used for system development

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Semantic Interoperability

Semantic interoperability is about the meaning of data elements and the relationship between them. It includes developing a vocabulary to describe data exchanges, and ensures that data elements are understood in the same way by communicating parties (EIF v1.0, ISA, 2004; EIF v2.0, ISA 2011).

Semantic web

Is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web, in which web content can be expressed in a format that can be read and used by software agents, permitting them to find, share and integrate information more easily

ELISE Resources: Introduction to Linked Data

SITNA

Territorial Information System of Navarre

Smart City

Making a better life for citizens in cities through digitally-enabled public services. The ‘Smart City’ concept has evolved into ‘Smart Communities’ and the two terms may be used interchangeably.

Smart Community

Innovation, partnerships, community building and decision making in a city, community or region enabled through interoperable digital services, technology and data. The concept evolved from ‘Smart Cities’ and the two terms may be used interchangeably.

Smart places

Smart municipalities, cities and regions are places where traditional networks and services are made more efficient with the use of digital and telecommunication technologies for the benefit of its inhabitants and business.

Smart Space

A smart space is a physical or digital environment in which humans and technology-enabled systems interact in increasingly open, connected, coordinated and intelligent ecosystems. The term ‘Smart Space’ is closely related to the terms ‘Smart City’ and ‘Smart Community’. Differences lie in the emphasis within smart spaces on integrated ‘intelligence’ capabilities and machine-based decisions. Smart spaces may also exist at more granular levels (e.g. buildings).

SME

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

SOA

Service Oriented Architecture

Social innovation

Social innovations are new social practices that aim to meet social needs in a better way than the existing solutions, resulting from – for example – working conditions, education, community development or health. These ideas are created with the goal of extending and strengthening civil society.

Source: Wikipedia

Spatial data

Data with a direct or indirect reference to a specific location or geographical area (cf. the legal definition in the INSPIRE directive, Directive 2007/2/EC). This term can be interchanged with location data, geospatial data or geodata.

Spatial Data Infrastructure

SDI

In general terms, a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) may be defined as ‘a framework of policies, institutional arrangements, technologies, data, and people that enable the effective sharing and use of geographic information’ [Bernard et al, 2005].

Spatial literacy

The ability to use the properties of space to communicate, reason, and solve problems.

Stakeholders

All actors with an interest/expectation in the need for which the service represents a solution.

ELISE Resources: Leveraging the Power of Location Information and Technologies to Improve Public Services at the Local Level

Standard

As defined in European legislation (Article 1, paragraph 6, of Directive 98/34/EC), a standard is a technical specification approved by a recognised standardisation body for repeated or continuous application, with which compliance is not compulsory and which is adopted as an international standard, a European standard or a national standard.

sTESTA

Secured Trans European Services for Telematics between Administrations